Three from LAT:
In the sound a decommissioned destroyer is a sacrilege (4,7)
Personal plane to Sweden assembled on truncated mountains (5)
At noon, I bumbled into a paper hoax (5)
Two from ST:
Get cat chow at last, cooked to 90º (5,2)
New northern lights (4)
 LAT |  Seattle Times 8/11/14 NYT |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
For artificial starship crewman, | things are looking up | a little bit (4)
[DATA] = [reversed upward] [A TAD]
Should your | goal lie | focused on | being | the first explorer of outer space? (7)
[filler] [GOAL LIE] [anagram] [=] [GALILEO]
For the overweight, | Overeaters Anonymous | has the | best, | except for the start (5)
[OBESE] = [O^A] [contains] [BEST] [minus T{The start}]
Mea culpa! This clue leads to OBESA instead of OBESE! Poor proofreading on my part. Thanks to Nice Cuppa for catching my error!
Drain | swirling | to | the bottom (5)
[DRAIN] [anagram] [=] [NADIR]
Suffragette strides | out of hiding | for | cycle trials (4,5)
[suffragetTE STRIDES] [hidden] [=] [TEST RIDES]
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ReplyDeleteIn the sound a decommissioned destroyer is a sacrilege (4,7)
Nowhere near to being a Brit homophone, but then we are not in Britland any more, Toto.
Personal plane to Sweden assembled on truncated mountains (5)
I live in the SW too, so this was not a problem. “Personal” is a slightly vague definition here. As you know, I would have written: “I object to plane to Sweden (or Denmark/Copenhagen/Stockholm, etc./) being assembled……”.
At noon, I bumbled into a paper hoax (5)
Got the answer, but had to Google “paper hoax”. Not a rag I have heard of, or wish to read.
Get cat chow at last, cooked to 90º (5,2)
Aha, nice switch. Very inventive.
New northern lights (4)
Simple but noble.
My collection:
ReplyDeleteST1: Personal success faces a question of bondage, perhaps (1,4,2)
ST2: Report of on-line marketer losing personal return (6)
ST3: Thank goodness there is enough room to receive pilgrims returning at the end of Christmas (10).
LAT1: A tiny thing in the big picture, but it has bite however you look at it (4)
LAT2: Eye-opening annotation shortly before midpoint in Dalmatian census? (5)
LAT3: Almost the last elements of design support biphasic code network (4)
Got them all, with caveats on 2 (ordering) or 3 (superfluous words).
ReplyDeleteST1: Personal success faces a question of bondage, perhaps (1,4,2)
Wouldn't this be DEITIMA? Or on a word-by-word basis, MAIDEIT? At least all the parts are there.
ST2: Report of on-line marketer losing personal return (6)
reverse subtraction, at e-tail prices.
ST3: Thank goodness there is enough room to receive pilgrims returning at the end of Christmas (10).
If you're going to have an indicator covering two parts, it can't be between them. Or you could use two indicators, one for eash part. But again, all the parts are there -- HALL, HAJ, yULE.
LAT1: A tiny thing in the big picture, but it has bite however you look at it (4)
GNAT<>TANG, with indicator of which side of the mirror to keep, but not sure how big picture fits in.
LAT2: Eye-opening annotation shortly before midpoint in Dalmatian census? (5)
Took me a while to parse, since I fixed on the midpoint of 101 being O, instead of 49.
LAT3: Almost the last elements of design support biphasic code network (4)
Penultimate acrostic, nicely done!